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The 2006 Jack Webster Awards Winners
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2006 Jack Webster Awards winners
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Best News Reporting of the Year - Print
Finalists
- Lori Culbert and Miro Cernetig – The Vancouver Sun – Savannah: BC's Child Protection System
- Jeff Rud and Lindsay Kines – Victoria Times Colonist – Sherry Charlie and the State of B.C.'s Child Welfare System
Best News Reporting of the Year - Radio
Finalists
- Mark Forsythe, Susan McNamee, Priya Ramu, Steve Lus, Cecilia Walters, Brian Dance, Karen Burgess, Bernice Chan, Doug Cheng, Miyoung Lee – CBC Radio One – Queen of Oak Bay Crash
- Gary Symons – CBC Radio – Gone to Hell - How the Biker Gangs Took Canada
Best News Reporting of the Year - Television
Finalists
- Natalie Clancy, Belle Puri, Terry Milewski, Justine Hunter, Melanie Nagy, Deborah Goble, Darrow MacIntyre – CBC News - Canada Now – Queen of the North
- Kathy Tomlinson, Todd Battis – CTV National News – The Zeisman Case
Best Feature Story - Print
Finalists
- Peter Clough, David Carrigg, Susan Lazaruk, Jonathan McDonald, Ginger Sedlarova, Jon Murray, Ric Ernst – The Province – Stolen Lives: An In Depth Look at the Dangerous World of Auto Crime
- Gary Mason – The Globe and Mail – Sudden Death
Best Feature Story - Radio
Finalists
- Betsy Trumpener – Daybreak North, CBC Radio – Mothers' Milk
- Tim Mah, Yvonne Gall – CBC Radio – Face the Music and Dance
Best Feature Story - Television
Finalists
- David Kincaid – CTV BC – Katrina Heroes
- Duncan McCue, James Roberts – CBC News Canada Now – Requiem for David
Jack Webster Business, Industry & Economics Award
Endowed by Jean Cormier
Finalists
- Carla Wilson – The Victoria Times Colonist – Sea Change
- Ross Howard – BC Business Magazine – Living on Borrowed Power
Best Reporting - Chinese Language
Finalists
- Fairchild TV News Team – Fairchild TV – Shattered Dream - One Man's Disastrous Experience in Investing in China
- Karen So, Michael Tam, Rachman Lai, Ricky Tong – channel m Television – BC Hydro
Jack Webster Award for Community Reporting
Finalists
- Michele Young – Kamloops Daily News – Glass Half Empty
- Trudy Beyak – Abbotsford News – What Every Mom and Dad Should Know - Pedophile's Pattern of Deception
Jack Webster Award for Excellence in Legal Journalism
Sponsored by the Law Society of British Columbia
Finalists
- Fabian Dawson, Andy Ivens, Christina Montgomery – The Province – Jury System Flawed
- Peter McKnight – The Vancouver Sun – The Myth of Getting Tough on Gun Crime
Jack Webster Award for Science & Technology
Finalists
- Frances Bula – The Vancouver Sun – A Convention of Sea Life
- Deborah Wilson – CBC Radio-Victoria – Failure Pattern
City Mike Award (Commentator of the Year)
Presented in memory of Linda Webster
Bruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award
